Nick, Rhonda, Reese, Finn, Charlie, Rio and Sally Jenkins

Another Glendale Invitational in the Books

These past few days my buddy Jeff Benezra and I played in the Glendale Member-Guest. It was something like our fifth start in the annual event.

It went quite well.

We started on Friday with a middle-of-the-pack performance. I shot 76 with five birdies (a personal record) but Benezra had a tough day. Yesterday, however, he went nuts. He ended up shooting 75 with 15 pars. I had 79 with two more birdies — had I not left so many out there, we might have won the whole thing. Our 76-point total for Saturday won us a bundle — and our 117-point total was good enough for second place in our flight.

Benezra and me in our Friday uni's, from Greenspan '08.

Saturday's magentas looked and played great.

We also came in second in the putting contest. Benezra’s performance in that Friday night escapade was the stuff of legend. I played well, but Benezra was a complete madman. He drained not one but three bombs to keep us in it. We didn’t win like last year, granted, but it was better than a poke in the eye, and it also paid quite well.

No doubt this was our best Invitational to date. Good friends, good performance, good paycheck.